As "mobiusace1" comments on the YouTube video for Wired Magazine's posting of the Japanese robot "Keepon", dancing to the latest Spoon hit "Don't You Evah", "It amazes me to see that we can like and relate to something so cute and simple when more complex looking robots can't."
It's true, though -- see later in the video when the far more 
humanoid
robots show up, yet don't manage to seem nearly as lifelike as a little
yellow blob with two buttons for eyes and one for a nose. Check it out.
What exactly is it that makes him more relatable... just that he's
dancing? Or that he seems to be reacting to others?
Plus, it's just a damn good tune. Check it out.
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